Lorelei and the Sane Controls

lorelei.mp4

This is a small mod for Lorelei and the Laser Eyes that aims to somewhat improve the experience of navigating the numerous puzzles of The Letztes Jahr Hotel.

More specifically, it makes the following changes:

1. For simple (and most common) locks - padlocks, roman numeral locks, etc - the up and down button rotate the dials, and the "interact" button confirms the decision
2. It adds a new "Back" button (B on controllers and Backspace on keyboard) which lets you back out of puzzles and inventory screen
3. It adds a new "Map" button (Select on controllers and M on keyboard), which shows a map of the current floor (provided you have unlocked it in-game). Use LB/RB or Q/E to switch between floors. The shortcut also works in the maze and in the forest.

I didn't touch some of the more difficult locks (like the Red Maze Door), but most of my own gripes with the controls are solved now. The Back button works in most places, but not everywhere (e.g. multiple choice dialog and free text input forms). Adding support for it involved a lot of ugly hacks and I've covered the most common/annoying screens.

Mapping

How to install

On Windows

Download the zip archive from Releases page and extract it to the game's root directory (in Steam it's Right Mouse Button - Manage - Browse local files). Overwrite the globalgamemanagers.assets when prompted. Done!

On Steam Deck

The mod uses BepInEx to inject the custom code, which in turn relies on winhttp.dll proxy DLL. That means you have to do additional steps

1. Switch to Desktop Mode
2. Download the zip archive from Releases page and extract it to the game's root directory
3. Install protontricks via Discover app and launch it
4. Choose Lorelei and the Laser Eyes
5. Select the default wine prefix
6. Run winecfg
7. In the Libraries tab add a new override for winhttp.dll and click OK

How to build it yourself

Library

1. Install .NET SDK
2. Clone this repo
3. Create a lib directory in the project
4. Copy Assembly-CSharp.dll from path\to\game\Lorelei and the Laser Eyes_Data\Managed to lib
5. Run dotnet build --configuration Release
6. Copy resulting DLL from LoreleiAndSaneControls\bin\Release\net46\ to path\to\game\BepInEx\plugins
7. Copy binds\globalgamemanagers.assets to path\to\game\Lorelei and the Laser Eyes_Data OR follow the instruction to import custom bindings yourself

Custom bindings

1. Install UABEA
2. Open path\to\game\Lorelei and the Laser Eyes_Data\globalgamemanagers.assets in the app
3. Find InputManager asset of type MonoBehaviour (NOT MonoScript)
4. Press Import dump, switch type from .txt to .json and select InputManager-globalgamemanagers.assets-1624.json
5. Save

How to uninstall

1. Delete BepInEx folder and winhttp.dll from the game's root directory.
2. Verify the game's contents in Steam to restore original bindings

Known problems

• The Map shortcut shows the map of the Hotel inside the Laser-1 prototypes and during the final sequence of the game, although it probably shouldn't. Not critical, not going to spend much time looking into it
• The Back button doesn't close the map screen opened by the Map shortcut. I've spent a lot of time tracking this, and still couldn't figure out why it wasn't working - but you can still close it with the regular Interact button